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Space Base

Amass spaceships for your fleet as you roll your way to domination.

Credits: Jarrod Moore

Source documentBoardGameGeek

Contents

  • Place 12 colony cards to form colony card display
  • Shuffle ship card decks of each level separately, then deal 6 face-up to form ship card display
  • Each player receives:
    • 1 board
    • 12 starting ship cards
    • 2 dice
    • 3 markers
  • Each player:
    • Places the markers on:
      • Money (yellow): 5 space
      • Income (green): 0 space
      • Victory Points (blue): 0 space
    • Places the 12 starting cards on the corresponding places on their player board
    • Each player takes one random level 1 card and deploys it:
      • Pay the price shown on the card
      • Take the starting card and flip it , then slide it under your player board in the same sector so that only the red part of the card is showing
    • The player that drew the highest sector card is the first player. Give this player the first player card:
      • In case of ties, roll dice to determine who starts

The game is played over a series of rounds where players will take one turn that go as follows:

  • Roll and Allocate Dice
  • Purchase a Card
  • End of Turn

When activating actions in your sectors, the general rules are:

  • Blue => can be used during your turn
  • Red => can be used during another player's turn
  • Green => can be used during any turn

A reward is a box where you receive some benefit, and it has no white circle in the top left of the box:

  • There are no green rewards, only blue and red An ability is a box where you can perform some action, and it has a white circle in the top left of the box:
  • Abilities can be blue, red or green

The game end is triggered when a player reaches 40 victory points. However, they do not win immediately. The round where the game end is triggered is finished, and after the round is completed, the player with the most victory points is the winner.

If two or more players are tied for the lead at this stage, the game continues for another round, with all players participating in this next round. You continue playing new rounds until there is one player in the lead at the end of the round, at which point that player is declared the winner